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after that day of practice it was just
tradition that he drove home but he had
been up since 6 30 and i didn't know you
know that he was tired you know i'm just
sitting there messing up with my phone
and that's all i really remember and
then obviously you know he falls falls
asleep and
we get in a bad accident my phone rings
and it's my son and i'm like hey what's
going on he's like mom mom we were in a
really bad accident i'm like are you
okay what about dad and he's like i'm
okay but dad's not
i got to the scene of the accident
before they even pulled my husband out
of the car
and they had to use jaws of life to get
greg out of the car
and i think i just was in a shock and my
son and i we were able to run up to the
stretcher and i said you don't give up
on us pisco i said you fight he was
transferred to our facility for level of
care because of the complexity of his
injuries my initial impression was it
was a very severe situation this is a ct
scan of mr pisco pink's pelvic injury so
he had a crack that went through here
there was a broken piece back here you
can see the fracture here that was
broken into several pieces one here one
here one there one there here's the
first bone of the ankle the tailless
this is dislocated out of the socket and
this
part of it right here actually needs to
line up with that bone and then he
dislocated some other parts of his foot
this was his right femur fracture so
here's the ball sockets up here which
was broken and then here's his thigh and
you get down here and you can see
there's a break here here's the tibia
the shin bone you can see here it's
broken up into multiple pieces this
fibula has a crack that goes across
there there's multiple cracks that were
going through
the knee joint
first thing i remember is you know
dealing with some of the doctors over
there and just being like
in shock that what had happened and that
i was okay
i couldn't even roll over on one side of
my body for a long time and when i could
roll over the next sided i was like i
was excited about that you know i did
the rehab that i could do which wasn't
even standing up at that point i mean
and that's how far it came i've just
learned to fight through it and just
keep going my husband is the biggest
fighter he's the toughest man i've ever
come across in my whole entire life and
i just knew that he loved his family he
loved his kids he loves his students he
loves his players i knew that he would
not go out without a fight and he was
going to fight for his life
keeping that positive attitude and that
drive to keep moving forward and get
back to normal which is our goal as
orthopedic surgeons is to get people and
restore their function to where it was
before their injury he played a very big
role in saving my life and so i truly
appreciate him for that and just you
know that's something that like i said
could be taken for granted from some
people is that like doctors in general
do incredible things well i mean he did
some awesome things
he's a great guy and
just makes me real happy that somebody
had the skill to be able to deal with me
because i was in really rough shape so i
love it
i mean
i had a humpty dumpty and he needed to
be put back together and they put him
back together and he had a one percent
survival rate a one percent chance of
living
and those doctors put him back together
knowing that he probably was going to
die
i think the biggest thing when it comes
to that type of
the injuries that he sustained is the
multidisciplinary care that we bring the
relationships we have with our vascular
surgeons our neurosurgeons our acute
care surgeons or icu teams
the relationships that all of our teams
come together and collaborate to take
care of these patients is what really
separates us from
going to other places
you know a lot of times you know people
say you're lucky to be alive and i
probably said that to people and that's
you know just saying it but i mean you
could tell that people when they said it
to me
really meant that i was lucky to be
alive and that's uh
you know something that goes hit you
deep in your heart you know it's been my
worst nightmare but again
because life was saved by henry ford and
because he's a fighter
you hear that a lot of times that it
could end instantly
and now i know that and so now i try to
take advantage of every moment that i
have alive
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